[lit-ideas] Re: Erin's Course Dilemma

From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 21:35:11 -0500

On 2005/01/19, at 9:42, Andreas Ramos wrote:
>> There are plenty of things for which there are no linguistic
>> expressions, yet they exist.
They exist, but do they mean? Before someone starts talking about them,
that is?
John McCreery
_________
Maybe it's worth discussing the distinction between private meaning and
public meaning? Aren't we really glossing a spectrum of meaning when we
use the word meaning? Maybe only "societal" meaning is necessarily
linguistic?
private meaning
meaning between two people
meaning among a small group of people
societal meaning
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